Catastrophic Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Can’t do without them and certainly can do without a disastrous incident like the gulf oil spill that happened recently. As many would have known on April 20th, 2010 an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile drilling unit 50 miles offshore of Louisiana, resulted in a fire that burned for hours and then sank the rig.

More than a hundred personnel were unaccounted for and there were multiple leaks at a depth of 5,000 feet. To date all attempts to stop the leaks have been unsuccessful. The destruction this will cause to the marine ecology is unimaginable.